Outline of the 2015 Super Global High School Concept Report
Designated Period
2015-2019③Name of IntendedCourse①School

Seifunankai High SchoolName②Location

Osaka prefecture④ Number of Intended Students⑤ Scale of the Whole School

1st

2nd

3rd

4thJunior high school : 816

YearYear

yearyear

Totalstudents (1st year: 295, 2nd year:269, and 3rd year: 252)

General Course

313

331

384

1028

High school(general course):
1028 students

Promotion of a deeper understanding of how the energy sector can⑥ Name of R & D

contribute to a better world
Establishment of a global network of industry, government andacademia to create the desirable future
We will establish a new global course and conduct the following
initiatives.
I. We will carry out future predictions using ”Scenario Planning” incooperation with domestic and foreign industries, governments, and⑦ Outline of R & D

academia.
II. In order to obtain the professional perspectives required forⅠ, wewill start a “STEP Seminar.”
III. We will implement “Global English” to carry out smoothcooperation exercises with the institutions above and to makeeffective presentations.
1. Purpose / goal
The PurposeWe define a global leader as “a person who draws the world’s possible
future plans with a global perspective and leads the society in a better⑧direction.” In order to foster such leaders, we will develop anDetails of⑧ -1

R & D,

Generaletc.

educational system that makes it possible to acquire “the ability to readand understand the future” and “the ability to communicate ideas andperspectives to the world.”
Goal・Developing new learning materials related to Scenario Planning.
・Interacting with domestic and overseas industries, governments, andacademia through the collaborative exercises of Scenario Planning,disseminating the method. We will increase the current 11
cooperating organizations to 50 during the designated period.
・Providing our students with more opportunities for exchanges withforeign institutions and providing English education to aid ourstudents to acquire all four skills, eventually having more than 60students who acquire over 100 points on TOEFL iBT.
2. Analysis of current situation and hypothesis on R & D
Seifunankai has been providing education that appreciates thetraditional values of Japan, with a high ratio of enrollment inprestigious universities. We are proud of having nurtured excellent
students. On the other hand, we think that our students areconservative about career orientation and are weak at speaking
English. In addition, we are afraid that they don’t have enoughautonomy and lack in skills on information technology. We formulate ahypothesis that our students will be able to overcome these challenges
by conducting Scenario Planning and communicating their study
results, which will require various abilities mentioned above.
3.Dissemination of results
We make an interim presentation twice a year, including aninternational symposium. We also publish a booklet once a year thatreports the details of our activities. In addition, we have started anEnglish website that shows what we have been doing. Besides, we will
disseminate Scenario Planning as a new educational approach throughcollaborative activities with various institutions and build a network
among them.
1. Details of the task study
Theme: “Think about the energy situation in the future by using thescenario planning method”⑧-2 TaskStudy

We conduct the future predictions by utilizing the scenario planning
method, which is famous for its adoption by a major energy company,
the Royal Dutch Shell. knder the supervision of the experts fromShowa Shell Sekiyu K.K., we will develop new teaching materials thatcan be used for high school students. In conducting Scenario Planning,
students have to logically create multiple future scenarios and think
about how to prepare for these different futures. By considering various

future possibilities, they can learn how to avoid risks and provide
desirable paths to the future. In the process of making scenarios, theywill broaden their horizons, think about driving forces that will affectthe future, consider the importance of causal relation and develop theability to create the future proactively. Since the amount of knowledge
high school students can acquire is very limited, the theme of Scenario
Planning will be confined to “Energy,” which will make it easy for themto gain necessary knowledge and information. In implementing
Scenario Planning, they are required to have knowledge and analyticalskills beyond the boundaries of subject-based education. In order toachieve this, we offer them four STEP (Societal, Technological,Economic, and Political) seminars so that they can acquire different
perspectives. The students take the basic course of all the fourseminars in their 1st year, and then in their 2nd year, they select one
seminar and deepen their knowledge on the field. Scenario Planningwill be conducted by a group of about 10 students, which consists of afew students from each of the STEP seminars. The students will write
an academic paper in their 3rd year, along with an abstract in English.
2. Implementation, Lerification and Evaluation[Implementation method]
・We will implement our research and development by utilizing two
Integrated Study classes as follows;
1st year: STEP Seminar (Basic), and Global English (GE)
2nd year: Scenario Planning (SP), STEP Seminar (Advanced), and GE
3rd year: SP and GE
・ Collaborate with external organizations (universities, companies,local public entities) and other high schools in order to supervise R & D
results, and collaborative SP exercises.
[Lerification/Evaluation]
・We will collect impressions and evaluations on each activity from thestudents and create portfolios.
・We will periodically require the students to write a report based on
their individual portfolio.
・We will invite collaborative organizations to our presentations andask them for evaluation.
・We will periodically conduct a survey with students, parents andteachers.

3. Required exceptions of educational curriculum
Nothing in particular
1.Details of R & D other than the task study, implementation method,and verification/evaluation
・In order to make presentations more extensive and effective and to
conduct Scenario Planning in collaboration with foreign schools, wewill have Global English classes where our students can acquire four
English skills.
・In order to effectively process a vast amount of information required
for the study, we will have Practical Information Technology classes
and help the students to acquire information processing skills.
⑧ -3 Other

Than theAbove

2. Required exceptions ofeducational

curriculum other thanconducting the task study
Nothing in particular
3. The improvement of our educational environment for nurturing
global leaders, and the details of extra-curricular activities
・We will increase the number of overseas cooperative partners andestablish a new department at our school for that purpose.
・We will install an electronic blackboard in every classroom.
・We will change our domestic school excursion trip into fieldwork
activities abroad.

⑨Other Items ofNote

In order to implement this initiative mentioned above, we establisheda global course in 2015.